Harini Calamur's Writings
The best way, if you are a Government, to divert attention from your fuck ups is to ensure that your armed forces is engaged outside its borders. So anyone who cribs and complains about your government can promptly be accused of being…
Wealth without Work Pleasure without Conscience Science without Humanity Knowledge without Character Politics without Principle Commerce without Morality Worship without Sacrifice – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
……. is somewhere between US$500 and US$ 2500 in occupied Iraq. Yes, I know that power was “handed” over, but as long as the US Armed forces remain on Iraqi soil, with the kind of mandate that they have – Iraq will…
While Cigarette smoking can cause cancer and a host of other assorted respiratory/circulatory ailments, it seems that Nicotine – the compund that hooks you to the cancer stick, – has beneficial effects. It wards off the onset of a host of mental…
A new Toyota that can feel is here. Reports the New York Times: Four inventors working for Toyota in Japan have won a patent for a car that they say can help drivers communicate better by glaring angrily at another car cutting…
….. to rehydrate a food pouch and you will have a ready to eat meal. This new gourmet delight is courtsey of the US army that is looking at an effective way of ensuring that its forces don’t go hungry, and are…
Cogito TV – my company – has just been commissioned a documentary film. I will be out filming in remote districts of Maharashtra. I take off on Monday to the back fo beyond and am thrilled to bits. The documentary is on…
If you are from a generation that grew up watching Star Trek , then you will probably read this with the same excitement that I did. The BBC reports that Scientists in the US and Austria – working independently – have managed…
There was no link, afterall, between Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden. And this is not from the anti war movement or Michael Moore, but the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States – a bipartisan commission set up to…
I spent the better part of last night clearing out spam from the Media Musings site. I felt positively homicidal at the end of the exercise. I wonder if that sort of action against spammers will be considered as insecticide!